Lorre, Peter

Born: 1904 AD
Died: 1964 AD

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1904 – He was born on June 26 of this year in Hungary, which is now known as Slovakia. His family moved to Vienna where he attended school. He began acting on stage in Vienna where he worked with Richard Teschner, then moved to Breslau, and Zürich.

1920 – He moved to Berlin where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, most notably in his Mann is Mann. He also appeared as Dr. Nakamura in the infamous musical Happy End by Brecht and composer Kurt Weill.

1931 – He became famous when Fritz Lang cast him as a child killer in his film “M.”

1933 – The Nazis came to power in Germany in this year, and he took refuge first in Paris and then London where he played a charming villain in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much.